Improvement in apparatus for carbureting air



, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIo-E.

CHARLES E. WOLLE AND SAMUEL MUNYON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA,ASSIGNORS TO SAID VVOLLE.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING AIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,246, dated January15, 1878; application filed I December 14, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. WoLLE and SAMUEL MUNYoN, of the city andcounty of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Oarbureting Air, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to an air-vessel, carburetor, and purifier, havinghigh-pressure seals,-and being connected together by means of suitablepipes, the whole being constructed and arranged as hereinafter fullydescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of ourimproved apparatus for manufacturing illuminating-gas. Fig. 2 is a faceview of the wire netting H.

A is a pipe, through which the compressed air is forced into theair-cylinder B. G is a siphon, the receiving end being connected withthe upper side of said air-cylinder by means of the fitting a, and themiddle part with the cylinder D by means of the fitting at. Itsdischarging end is projected downward to near the bottom of the vessel,and is of funnel shape, as represented, for the purpose of spreading thecompressed air, which passes from the cylinder B through the siphon,into the gasoline or other gaseous liquid, which fills the lower part ofthe vessel as high as the dotted line I).

As the air passes up through the liquid it is carbureted, and as itrises to the top of the vessel it is drawn by means of the siphon F,connected with the vessels D and G, as represented, into the vessel G,and discharged by its funnel-shaped mouth into the lower part of thevessel, which is filled with sponge and a solution of lime or potash, asfar as the wirenetting H, which netting is shown detached in Fig. 2. Thenetting is for the purpose of confining the sponge in its place withoutobstructing the flow of the gas. The gas is purified as it passes upthrough the sponge, and fills the upper part of the vessel, above thenetting H, whence it passes through the pipe I to the burners.

We claim as our invention A high-pressure apparatus for manufacturingilluminating-gas, having an air-vessel, B, filled with air underpressure, a oarbureter, D, connected therewith by means of the pipe 0,and having in its lower end gasoline or other gaseous liquid, and apurifier, G, connected with the carburetor by means of the pipe F, andhaving sponge or other porous material, and a solution of lime orpotash, or purifying material, the vessels B, D, and G,

having high-pressure seals, substantially in the manner and for thepurpose set forth.

CHARLES E. VVOLLE. SAMUEL MUNYON. Witnesses:

STEPHEN USTICK, P. V. WEAVER.

